Shooting Glasses

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kalstrand

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The topic below about the best color of lenses brought up a question for me. Do you all wear actual shooting glasses? I usually just wear my sunglasses when I am at the local outdoor range that I normally frequent. The one time I have shot in an indoor range I just used the glasses they provided.
 
I prefer clear shooting glasses. My current safety glasses are a pair of clear Smith & Wesson's that I picked up at Wally World for $8. I do most of my shooting indoors in the winter. Once it warms up and I get a chance to get outside and shoot I will probably revert back to regular sunglasses.
 
The topic below about the best color of lenses brought up a question for me. Do you all wear actual shooting glasses? I usually just wear my sunglasses when I am at the local outdoor range that I normally frequent. The one time I have shot in an indoor range I just used the glasses they provided.
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Lenses should be made of trivex or polycarbonate. Those are the safest materials for eyewear lenses.
 
Indoors I like clear shooting glasses. Outdoors I like yellow (in this case 50% yellow) with a red fiber optic sight. I have found that amber and smoke reduce the already dim light in an indoor range. Just my two cents.
 
I have to admit that I don't wear shooting glasses unless I'm at a range that requires it. When I do wear them I strongly prefer clear.
 
Does anyone know of a good quality pair of safety glasses that will fit over 'computer' (older, weaker prescription for intermediate distances)glasses?
 
I use Oakley M-frames with either clear, yellow lens' or Radars with eith Black or Gold Iridium lens'. Mostly use the Gold Iridium though as they work great for me in just about any light.
 
I seldom wear shooting glasses, but I opt for special regular eye-glasses which are more resistant. If I am wearing contacts, I nearly always wear clear glasses. I do have a smoked pair for shooting outdoors on a bright day.
 
Does anyone know of a good quality pair of safety glasses that will fit over 'computer' (older, weaker prescription for intermediate distances)glasses?
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We provide these to visitors who need safety glasses in addition to their regular prescription glasses.
 
The most important thing about shooting glasses is the ear pieces. Most shooting glasses have thick ones that break the seal of your ear protectors. Right away, your 30db ears are 18db ears. Pretty quick, you have damage.

Get glasses with thin wire frames.
 
I have a pair of Randolph shooting glasses that I always wear. Of course they are perscription lenses and without them at 100 yards the bulls eye target I'm shooting becomes a blurry black smudge. Interestingly, this is the only time I wear perscription glasses.
 
After we spend hundreds and thousands on our shooting equipment I cannot understand why anyone would wear cheap plastic glasses to cover their PRECIOUS EYES. NO EYES = NO SHOOTING. How much are your eyes worth?Has anyone seen a case head seperation? Happened to a friend of mine. 5 hours in the E.R. Doc said that he was lucky he could still see. I did a lot of research and settled on these, with 1 clear and 3 colored lenses. I wear prescription glasses, so i got the ones with the RX carriers. Just an old shooters two cents worth. This should start something. :cool:

http://www.gunnersalley.com/product/ESSGLASSES/ESS_Shooting_Glasses.html
 
Bravo to RonsRoom! Great post!

That SandPiper Dude is right on. He has some good advice about lens material.

These kind of posts always seem to come down to how cheaply you can get away with protecting your most valuable sense! Come on guys/gals. Think of all of the money that you spend on this hobby. I see some of you at the range. Man, oh man. I wish that I had the dead presidents to urinate away the way some of you folks do. I see you guys, strutting around with your fancy gun cases, laminated stock, high powered magnum of the weeks, optics to die for, bragging about how great the particular high dollar ammo that you happen to shoot is the be all end all.

Then................................................you cheap fools pull out some crummy $7.89 fits over *safety google* and go blasting away.

Silly really.
 
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